Sentences with phrase «junior minister at»

Since he became junior minister at the DCMS 18 months ago, he has attacked investors in film for being «unimaginative and conservative», simultaneously complaining that there are too many «arty farty» films and too much «heritage movie - making».

He will serve as a parliamentary undersecretary of state, or a junior minister at the Department for Education.

I asked Robert Key, the junior minister at the Department of National Heritage, what more was being done to set these matters in train.

Mark Lennox - Boyd, the junior minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) tells me it is a myth that the World Service is always meanly treated and underfunded.

Just before Christmas, Charles Wardle, junior minister at the Department of Trade and Industry, announced that 141 projects, with a combined capacity of 630 megawatts, have been approved under the third round of the NFFO.

Lady Northover moves from the Lords whips» office to Featherstone's old post as a junior minister at the Department for International Development.

Rudd, who served as a more junior minister at DECC before the election, is said to be in favour of expanding renewable energy usage.

He became an MP at the February 1974 General Election, [5] and served as a Tory whip from 1977 to 1981, when he became a junior minister at the Department of Trade and Industry, moving to MAFF in 1983.

Former Tory leadership contender David Davis added: «She's a junior minister at the moment leaping into the hardest job in the government at the hardest possible time.

A particular difficulty arose with a junior minister at the Department of Trade and Industry: Nicholas Ridley.

I was his junior minister at the Scotland Office & he was great to work with

A fascinating insight into the practical workings of the Churchill coalition can be seen in the diary of James Chuter Ede, a Labour junior minister at the Board of Education, edited by Kevin Jefferys in Labour and the Wartime Coalition (1987).

Those who become a junior minister at the first entry are more likely to end up in the Cabinet, whereas ministerial aides tend to stay that way.

Preseli Pembs MP Stephen Crabb is the junior minister at the Wales Office.

He said Welsh ministers had found the new Secretary of State «pragmatic and reasonable» to deal with during his time as a junior minister at the Wales Office.

Downing Street has confirmed that Vale of Glamorgan MP Alun Cairns is the new junior minister at the Wales Office.

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The junior Minister of Finance also says the same thing; the contingency reserve is at play and the government will have a surplus no matter what.

Amber Rudd and Sajid Javid the two get Cabinet roles after operating with the Chancellor at the Treasury & # 13 & # 13 & # 13 & #thirteen & # 13 Picture: Reuters & #thirteen & # 13 George Osborne has strengthened his part in govt even more with the appointment of two of his previous junior ministers to Cupboard...

They've met with Brandon Lewis, immigration minister, Robin Walker, parliamentary under secretary at the Brexit department, and David Jones, junior minister.

The View from the Foothills by Chris Mullin is just so accurate about life as a junior minister that it was painful to read at times.

During the tenure of different governments the title of Minister of / for Transport has been used to refer to the Secretary of State for Transport, one or more of the junior Ministers or even both the Secretary of State and the junior Ministers at the same time.

That was what prompted yesterday's unedifying performance at prime minister's questions in parliament yesterday: Liam Fox and the PM, both gung - ho for nuclear weapons, reducing what should be a serious discussion about Britain's security needs to a bout of junior common room point - scoring.

I find it amusing to hear today colleagues who were junior ministers under Thatcher extolling a tough line on public services but who at the time flinched when faced with opposition.

Rejected an appointment as a government whip in 2001, but joined the government as a junior transport minister between 2005 - 2007 (more information at They work for you)

In terms of junior ministers who've performed well in their briefs and are knocking at the door of the Cabinet any list must include Greg Clark, Nick Herbert, Maria Miller and Grant Shapps.

The year after it was 15, including Theresa May's new justice secretary, David Gauke, a junior Treasury minister at the time.

First of all, Cameron is likely to want to seize the agenda at some point with a last major reshuffle before the general election (and indeed some junior ministers may get moved during the summer).

Tony Blair was also the first PM to have no government experience since Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and the first Leader of the Opposition to have no government experience since the post was created in 1935 - Neil Kinnock was a PPS at the end of the Callaghan Government and John Smith was a Junior minister from the start on in the Wilson government, a Minister of State for much of the time and Secretary of State for Trade in the final 6 months of the Labour govminister from the start on in the Wilson government, a Minister of State for much of the time and Secretary of State for Trade in the final 6 months of the Labour govMinister of State for much of the time and Secretary of State for Trade in the final 6 months of the Labour government.

Anna Soubry, a junior defence minister, has been made a minister of state at the Ministry of Defence.

Gavin Strang (Minister of Transport) had been a junior at Energy and Agriculture.

with the wife of his junior minister and on that basis he should not have cast any stone at all, right?

Graham Stuart Yet another assisant whip - turned junior minister, the Beverley and Holderness MP, the Commons since 2005, is now at the Department for International Trade.

[5] Junior ministers were also said to be frustrated at Cabinet ministers for propping up a Prime Minister with no authority in order to further their careers with some ministers preparing to resign in order to trigger a leadership election.

Junior Spanish foreign minister Bernardino Leon flew on the Iberia flight from Spain into Gibraltar's airport, which caused traffic jams when it landed at 13:00 GMT as the town's main road runs across the territory's only runway.

Remarks at odds with party leadership on day in which three junior shadow ministers resign in protest as Jeremy Corbyn struggles to assert authority

As for what has become of the outgoing co-chairman, Mehdi says that she has been offered a role as «a junior Foreign Office minister with a seat at the Cabinet table, a position she has not yet accepted.»

Look at a situation where a junior minister comes from one part of the country and a senior minister comes from another part and the junior minister said he could not take instructions from the senior minister.

Aalayah Eastmond, a junior at Stoneman Douglas High School, was at Sharpton's National Action Network in Harlem for the minister's weekly meetings.

MP for Tunbridge Wells in Kent since 2005, Clark, 48, began at the communities department as planning minister, then took on junior roles at the Treasury and Cabinet Office before becoming universities minister.

Now the party has five cabinet ministers and more than a dozen junior ministers; for the first time in living memory, announcements of government policy are being made at a Lib Dem party conference.

WHEN I asked in the House of Commons for a statement on the government's investment policy for new developments at CERN, the European centre for particle physics, Robert Hughes the junior science minister responded.

At the moment the science and technology area is overseen by a junior Minister for Science, Ross Free, and a senior Minister for Industry, Technology and Commerce, John Button.

Neil Hamilton, the junior minister for corporate affairs at the DTI, replied saying that his department's role under the Insurance Companies Act 1982 was primarily concerned with the solvency of insurance companies and with the fitness of their directors, senior managers and major shareholders.

Should the new junior minister Lord Agnew wish to look at the performance of open free schools, it would be wise to ponder what form the schools we want should take, and how they can be helped, rather than the label attached to them.

Junior minister Greg Rickford, meanwhile, takes over at Natural Resources, but retains responsibility for the agency overseeing development of the Ring of Fire mineral deposit in northern Ontario.

Tortola, British Virgin Islands, June 15, 2016 — J'Nique Williams, an 11th grade student at Bregado Flax Educational Centre is the new Junior Minister of Tourism.

Kerry McCallum, Associate Professor of Communication and Media Studies at the University of Canberra, and Lisa Waller, a former print journalist now doing a PhD at the University of Canberra, say that media logic — defined as «involving a range of skills and tools to monitor, pre-empt and react to news media representation of their policy field» — has permeated the practices of Indigenous affairs policy professionals at every level, from minister to junior bureaucrat.